Archives for
December 2011

Consumers are increasingly turning to mobile devices to run price comparisons while shopping in stores, and many online retailers -- who, without the costs of a brick and mortar operation, are often able to offer better prices -- are benefitting as a...

For some, today's official grand opening of the .xxx domain is the best thing to happen to Internet pornography since it was injected with life in the 1990s, as depicted in the movie Middle Men. For others, it's a dangerous move that comes with too m...

Controversial carjacking game Grand Theft Auto III, a console classic, is finally coming to a mobile device near you, Rockstar Games announced Tuesday. Grand Theft Auto III: 10 Year Anniversary Edition will be available on Dec. 15 on both iOS and And...

A panel of mobile phone users found that Amazon’s new Kindle Fire tablet has an error-prone browser, a touchscreen too small for fingers and an overall "poor" user experience. A study from the Nielsen Norman Group – which was conducted among four tes...

An email from Twitter sales to prospective advertisers today revealed what brands have been paying for followers on the platform. The memo included cost-per-follower (CPF) rates for Promoted Accounts and cost-per-engagement (CPE) for Promoted Tweets....

As India becomes more connected, technology is disseminating in different patterns than it did in the West. Today, there are more mobile subscribers in the country than TV owners. Of the population of 1.2 billion, 100 million are online and 38 millio...

The smartphone and tablet patent battle between Apple and Samsung continues, but recently included an interesting twist. A U.S. District judge accidentally revealed some details about just how secretive these court proceedings are. Check out the vide...

Adele, who is sidelined by vocal cord hemorrhaging and subsequent microsurgery, sent her first two tweets this week. The global pop star's inaugural tweet on @OfficialAdele -- which has been around since August 2010 but managed by other people until ...

A bug in Facebook's code briefly gave users access to other users' Facebook photos -- including those of Mark Zuckerberg -- without permission Tuesday. Members of a body building forum first spotted the bug, which appeared in a new feature that allow...

A brilliant new website has combined our love of wasting time and the Internet's collective affection for cats. It's called Procatinator, and I'm warning you now, it will suck all but the blackest of hearts into its vortex of awesome. Procatinator is...

It sounds like the plot of a Muppet movie: A right-wing TV network accuses Jim Henson's popular creations of being Communists, and a multitude of fans rise to their defense throughout the country. That's the story being played out on Twitter right no...

The onstage confirmation of Beyonce’s pregnancy during MTV's Video Music Awards shattered Twitter's tweets-per-second record in August. To this day, the event still tops the TPS chart, ahead of significant moments involving Steve Jobs, FIFA Women's W...

The popular blog Damn You Auto Correct went viral on the Internet again this week, after the site unveiled its funniest auto-corrected text messages of the year. As amusing as they are, some readers question whether or not the texts submitted were ac...

Facebook officially took the "beta" label off its much-publicized Timeline this evening, but it's rolling out the new feature gradually. New Zealand is currently the only country to get Timeline, the company said in a blog post this evening. Other re...

Julian Taub is a freelance science writer and performance poet in the East Village of NYC. He writes a nanotechnology blog called Julian’s TechSplurge, and runs Late Nite Labs’ science blog. You can follow him on Twitter: @JulianTaub. Every electrica...

Developer-friendly revenue sharing, new app capabilities unique to Windows 8 and easy compatibility with touch or mouse-and-keyboard devices were among the upcoming Windows Store features that Microsoft touted at a special preview event for developer...

John Lasseter, the chief creative officer at Pixar, was on Charlie Rose last week, talking about Steve Jobs, the evolution of animation and Pixar's next project, Brave. The episode is worth watching in its entirety. On the subject of Jobs, Lasseter r...

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